Do not upgrade your WordPress to Gutenberg

  • I postponed updating my WP for more than a year because I new most new releases are shitty and will give me headaches as it will not work well with plugins, themes etc.

    Now, after about 1 year and a half, I decided to upgrade. I only wish I would have read the reviews first.

    The Gutenberg editor is horrible compared to the old one and it’s pretty much copied from Buzzfeed blocks editor, which even though was horrible it didn’t have that many errors.

    Gutenberg is full of errors and glitches and will make posting a living hell.

    Luckily there’s a Classic Editor plugin but it’s said that I have to install another plugin to have the old version back. I don’t know why WordPress is not rolling back the Classic Editor as this one has clearly failed.

    They do offer a Classic block that you can use, but that one is full of errors, for example when you try to Undo some mistake it will undo the whole post in that editor. It’s insane. It also doesn’t work properly with many plugins such as WPRM.

    I think WordPress should just take a look at the reviews for the Classic Editor. It has more than 5 million installs and 784 5-star reviews.

    In contrast, Gutenberg has more than 3000 reviews and averages at 2 stars.

    This is people’s opinion of your new editor guys.

    Just admit the failure and bring back the classic editor.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Yui. Reason: caps
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  • I postponed updating my WP for more than a year because I new most new releases are shitty and will give me headaches as it will not work well with plugins, themes etc.

    As much as I hate Gutenberg like you, this is simply not true at all. I maintain 100+ customer sites and WordPress updates have never caused any significant problems. For your own website feel free to postpone updates. For a professional this would not be an acceptable solution.

    I really personally resent being FORCED to use Gutenberg on my private blog. I’ve been doing web design for over 20 years and I really don’t need WP to help me start a new block — I mean PARAGRAPH. Just give us the option, what’s so hard about that! I add custom code all the time, every single thing I have to go digging for now.

    It’s downright communist.

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